WARREN ANDERSON

Bhopal: Swaraj Puri was the Bhopal Superintendent of Police when the deadly Methyl IsoCyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in the middle of the night of December 2, 1984. Puri has faced criticism for safely escorting the then the Union Carbide Corporation chairman and CEO Warren Anderson to...

New Delhi: Journalist Rajkumar Keswani shot into fame in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. His passionate stories in 1982, warning of the disaster waiting to happen were ignored. Keswani was so convinced about the threat the pesticide plant of UCIL posed to Bhopal that he wrote...

Director: Ravi Kumar
Cast: Mischa Barton, Martin Sheen, Warren Anderson, Rajpal Yadav
This month, it will be exactly 30 years since the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's biggest industrial disaster. In September, Warren Anderson died, without ever having faced trial in India for his role in the horrific catastrophe. Anderson was the...

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Former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, wanted in India in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which claimed over 3,000 lives in one of the world's most lethal industrial accidents, has died in the US state of Florida aged 92. Activist Satinath Sarangi said, "The struggle will go on...

The Prime Minister Office's has no record available on arrest and subsequent release of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson, and also on provision of a state plane which flew him back to Delhi, the Commission probing the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case has been informed.
According to the PMO, "desired...

Bhopal: The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) has no record of the arrest and release of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson and the state plane which flew him back to Delhi.
Official sources said the PMO told the Commission probing the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case that the desired information was...

A Bhopal district court has issued summons to Dow Chemicals in the ongoing criminal case on the world's worst industrial disaster that, in December 1984, claimed thousands of lives and wounded many more thousands. Will the victims ever get justice? joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.
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Bhopal: A local court here on Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul...

Bhopal: The extradition request of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson, main accused in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, is still under examination as no decision has been taken by the US' Department of Justice in this regard, the CBI said in its status report filed with a local court....

Bhopal: Two notices, sent to former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson at his US addresses by a probe panel, were returned by the authorities concerned on the ground of "person unidentified and insufficient address", sources said on Wednesday.
The two notices were sent through the government of India to Greenwich and...

Bhopal: A sessions court on Tuesday upheld a 2010 verdict of a trial court in the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy case while dismissing the CBI's petition seeking retrial and enhancement of sentence awarded to former Union Carbide officials.
The revision petition seeking enhancement of sentence under the new section of 304II...

Bhopal: BJP leaders on Friday disagreed with claims of late Congress leader Arjun Singh in his soontobe released autobiography on the issue of then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's release and alleged that it was an attempt to shield Rajiv Gandhi on the issue.
"Former Union Home Secretary RD Pradhan has...

New York: In a setback to 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy victims, a US court has held that neither Union Carbide nor its former chairman Warren Anderson were liable for environmental remediation or pollutionrelated claims at the firm's former chemical plant in Bhopal.
US District Judge John Keena in Manhattan dismissed a...

New Delhi: The quest for justice for Bhopal gas tragedy victims has hit yet another dead end. Delivering a setback to the CBI and Madhya Pradesh government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the charges against seven people accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case.
The apex court has rejected the...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday allowed the CBI to seek extradition of Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson, an accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case, from the United States.
"Considering the entire facts in its holistic perspective and sentiments of the disasterhit...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday moved the Tis Hazari courts in Delhi seeking extradition of Union Carbide Corporation Chairman Warren Anderson for his involvement in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case.
Giving his opinion to the CBI, Attorney General GE Vahanvati on Tuesday said that there...

New Delhi: The circumstances under which United Carbide chief Warren Anderson suddenly fled the country after he arrived in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy will continue to remain a mystery.
MTNL, which could have thrown some light, said it was unable to provide phone call details.
The stateowned telephone...

Bhopal: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday said the way in which former Union Carbide Corporation CEO Warren Anderson left the city after the 1984 gas disaster was not an issue at all.
"It does not matter whether Anderson left Bhopal in a plane or train or walked to New...

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh broke his silence over what exactly transpired after the Bhopal gas leak tragedy and who let former CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, get away after being arrested. The key point from Arjun Singh's speech in the Rajya Sabha was the clean chit...

New Delhi: Breaking his silence, Arjun Singh on Wednesday appeared to point fingers at the late PV Narasimha Rao in the exit of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson in the wake of Bhopal gas disaster in 1984, thereby giving a clean chit to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
"The...

New Delhi: CBI has refused to part with information on a purported letter of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) asking it not to pursue extradition proceedings against then chairman of Union Carbide Warren Anderson after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
"The case is still pending prosecution visavis Anderson, who is...

New Delhi: Former Union Carbide chairman Keshub Mahindra, a convict in the Bhopal gas tragedy, has been granted bail by a local court hearing the petition challenging the trial court's verdict awarding twoyear jail to seven Union Carbide executives including Mahindra.
Mahindra has been given bail on a bond of...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (on board his Special Aircraft) on Tuesday said that his government will try to ensure that the US takes a "more favourable attitude" towards the extradition of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson to stand trial in India in the Bhopal gas leak case.
Singh told journalists...

Toronto: India on Monday told the US that Pakistan should realise the importance of the disclosures made by LeT operative David Headley and take action against terrorism emanating from its soil directed towards it.
India's concerns were conveyed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to US President Barack Obama during a halfhour...

While the Group Of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy recommended the reopening of certain cases including former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson's extradition, senior advocate Fali Nariman, who also represented Union Carbide in 1985 feels what the Government is saying is not legally tenable. He also said that...

Bhopal: Angry villagers in Indore are protesting the proposed incineration of 346 tonnes of toxic waste from the now defunct Union carbide factory at the Pithampura Industrial area near Indore. Their fears have been fuelled by the report from the Central Pollution Control Board that says underground water got...